Montag, 19.06.2023
Great Minds in Despair - Exploring the History of the Forced Migration of German-Speaking Neuroscientists to Canada and the United States, 1933–1989
18:30 - 20:00 Uhr
2. Stock; 201, Madonnensaal, Karl-Rahner-Platz 3, 6020 Innsbruck
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Vortragende/r
Frank W. Stahnisch
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Frank W. Stahnisch is a historian of medicine and neuroscience and has received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin (Germany) in 2001. He holds the »Alberta Medical Foundation/Hannah Professorship in the History of Medicine and Health Care« at the University of Calgary (Canada) and is an Editor-in-Chief of the international Journal of the History of the Neurosciencesas well as Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychology.
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In history of science and migration history, the so-called »Brain Gain Thesis« is often taken as an unquestioned given in scholarly accounts of the forced migration wave of Jewish and politically oppositional physicians and medical researchers following the Nazis’ rise to power in 1933 and the beginning of the »Third Reich«. Research literature on the receiving coun-tries, such as Canada and the United States of America has primarily tended to take the in-tellectual, academic, and institutional dimensions of the forced migration wave into ac-count, while the individual fate and adaptation problems of many émigré researchers and scholars are still considerably under-investigated. While examining the historical case of the development of the modern neurosciences (here as one of several important examples of biomedical research), this talk and the wider research project will look at the fate of a group of German and Austrian émigré physicians and biomedical researchers, who could be classi-fied as early ‘neuroscientists’ and who immigrated to North America either transitionally or for good.
Veranstalter
Zentrum für Kanadastudien
Institut für LehrerInnenbildung und Schulforschung
Thomas Hoffmann
00 43 512 50744433
thomas.hoffmann@uibk.ac.at